Columbia University Department of Statistics

2010 Minghui Yu Memorial Conference
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The conference will take place on Saturday April 17, 2010 in the Garden Room of the Columbia University Faculty House. Directions to Faculty House are available here.
Time Event
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Breakfast
10:00-10:25 Amal Moussa
Too Interconnected to Fail: Contagion and Systemic Risk in Financial Networks
10:25-10:50 Shawn Simpson
A Bayesian Self-Controlled Method for Drug Safety Surveillance in Large-Scale Longitudinal Databases
10:50-11:15 Tyler McCormick
Network Inference Using Aggregated Relational Data
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Keynote presentation: Michael Steele, UPenn
Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization: From the TSP and MST to Dogerpillars
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:55 Georgios Fellouris
Decentralized Sequential Hypothesis Testing
1:55-2:20 Emilio Seijo
Consistency in Multivariate Convex Regression
2:20-2:45 Chun Yip Yau
Modeling Cluster Spatial Point Pattern - On a Generalization of Neyman Scott Process
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:25 Nick Bartlett
Forgetting Counts: A Constant Memory Approach to Online Prediction of a Discrete Sequence
3:25-3:50 Johannes Ruf
Smoothness of Hedging Prices
3:50-4:15 Petr Novotny
Inference from the Order Book
4:15-5:15 Reception